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My paternal grandmother and I don’t really talk. It’s not due to any personal acrimony – just the usual generation gap, compounded by the fact that neither of us properly speak the language that the other person is most comfortable with. I live in the world of the English language; my grandmother’s native tongue is Teochew, though like many Singaporeans of her generation (she’s in her mid-90s), she also speaks a muddle of other local language… Continue Reading

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An excellent long read on history, heritage and the gaps and silences in between.

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"The ethics of memory is not something that we often talk about in Singapore. In the ongoing frenzy to remember, record and archive, we dont usually pause to ask why we should be doing this, if there is something ethically at risk of being forgotten, denied or erased from existence, and thus if there is some other question we should be asking instead." Author is Bubblevicious on Twitter.